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A Fugitive from Justice

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A Fugitive from Justice
Directed byTerry O. Morse
Written byLeonard Neubauer (story "Million Dollar Fugitive")
StarringRoger Pryor
Lucile Fairbanks
Eddie Foy Jr.
CinematographyArthur L. Todd
Edited byThomas Pratt
Production
company
Release date
  • 1940 (1940)
Running time
53 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

A Fugitive from Justice is a 1940 film starring Roger Pryor, Lucile Fairbanks and Eddie Foy Jr.

Plot

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Fugitive Lee Leslie (Donald Douglas) is wanted by three groups; the police, the gangsters who fear his testimony in court and the insurance company that carries a $1,000,000 policy on him and is anxious to protect its interests by seeing that Leslie stays alive. The company assigns Dan Miller (Pryor) and his partner, Ziggy, (Foy) to find Leslie. A night club singer, Ruby Patterson (Sheila Bromley) the beneficiary of his will, tips the gangsters as to his whereabouts. He escapes but the gang kidnaps his sister Janet (Fairbanks) and his mother (Lottie Williams). His plan to surrender to the police now depends on being able to rescue them first.

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